Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . e did not want a federation of Ital-ian repubUcs with a Liberal Pope at its head, but he didwant Austria to be driven out of Italy, and a United Italy(Northern Italy at least) made into a kingdom, with himselfas its constitutional king. For these things he bided his time,and opposed those patriots who dreamed of republics, ormade untimely attempts at revolution. There were three very great men in his little kingdom,though two of them were not known beyond it up to theyear 1848, — Count Camillo Cavour, General La Ma
Italy in the nineteenth century and the making of Austria-Hungary and Germany . e did not want a federation of Ital-ian repubUcs with a Liberal Pope at its head, but he didwant Austria to be driven out of Italy, and a United Italy(Northern Italy at least) made into a kingdom, with himselfas its constitutional king. For these things he bided his time,and opposed those patriots who dreamed of republics, ormade untimely attempts at revolution. There were three very great men in his little kingdom,though two of them were not known beyond it up to theyear 1848, — Count Camillo Cavour, General La Marmora,and the Marquis Massimo dAzeglio. The latter was theauthor of a well known Italian romance called EttoreFieramosco. These men were all true patriots, but wise and statesman-like, opposed to rash enterprises, and to premature repub-licanism. Their motto was : Let us first make Italians,and then make Italy. To this end they were all workingto carry out material improvements, the construction ofrailroads, the regulation of commerce, the promotion ofeducation, and so KING CHARLES ALBERT. / CHARLES ALBERT AND NORTHERN ITALY. lOI Count Camillo Cavour was the third son of a noble Pied-montese father. When hardly out of college he was suspectedof political leanings that were too patriotic, and for tenyears his family were glad to have him live out of Italy,principally in France and England, studying their systems,particularly agriculture, to which he devoted himself on hisreturn home. In this his history is like that of his greatrival. Prince Bismarck, and he was like him, too, in this,that at one period of his life he was very wild. About 1S46 he devoted himself to journalism in Turin^and thenceforth came forward as a politician. In 1834,when in disgrace at Court, he wrote to a friend that hehoped nevertheless some day to gratify all his ambitions, forin his dreams he saw himself Minister of Italy, CharlesAlbert seems to have had his eyes upon him, for, on someone asking
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